Ary Scheffer
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Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil
Painting ID:: 94973 new26/Ary Scheffer-953479.jpg
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Ary Scheffer
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Dordrecht 1795-Argenteuil 1858
Dutch painter, sculptor and lithographer, active in France. He became a French citizen in 1850. He received his earliest training in the studio of his parents, Johann-Bernhard Scheffer (1764-1809) and Cornelia Scheffer (1769-1839), who were both artists, as was his brother Henri Scheffer (1798-1862). He then attended the Amsterdam Teeken-Academie (1806-9). At the first Exhibition of Living Masters in Amsterdam in 1808 he showed Hannibal Swearing to Avenge the Death of his Brother Hasdrubal |
Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil |
1835 (Painted in 1835, signed in 1851)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 172.7 x 238.8 cm
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